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People on the Move: Director to Retire

California's Department of Child Support Services is preparing for the retirement of Director Alisha Griffin this week.

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California's Department of Child Support Services is preparing for the retirement of Director Alisha Griffin this week.

Griffin came to California after serving as New Jersey's Child Support Services director for more than 15 years. While in New Jersey, Griffin helped implement a second-generation child support system, which has become "the model system" with "modules of it used in an international system," Griffin told Techwire.

She pulled a modular mindset from that experience.

"I think there's just been so many issues and concerns and historically long processes that, by the time you build the systems, it's old before you launch them," Griffin said.

While Griffin plans to go into consulting for both the private and public sector after leaving her three-year position at DCSS, she has not disclosed many details about the projects she hopes to work on. She will continue "to speak out for child support services," and encourage the use of module development.

Kayla Nick-Kearney was a staff writer for Techwire from March 2017 through January 2019.